I try to send a simple Email via CakePHP's Email Component. I'm using following code from the cookbook documentation:
$this->Email->from = 'Irgendjemand <irgendjemand#example.com>';
$this->Email->to = 'Irgendjemand Anderes <irgendjemand.anderes#example.com>';
$this->Email->subject = 'Test';
$this->Email->send('Dies ist der Nachrichtenrumpf!');
The send()-method does only return a boolean value with the value false - but no error or warning occurs.
Does somebody have a solution for that?
Have you tried changing the delivery options? There are three options: mail, smtp and debug.
$this->Email->delivery = 'debug';
$this->Email->send('test message');
debug($this->Session->read('Message.email'));
You can debug with EMail. Set the delivery to debug and the email message will be set to Session.message:
if (Configure::read('debug') > 1) {
$this->Email->delivery = 'debug';
}
$ret = $this->Email->send();
if (Configure::read('debug') > 1) {
pr($this->Session->read('Message.email'));
}
Which OS are you on? If Windows, this note may be of interest:
Note: The Windows implementation of mail() differs in many ways from the Unix implementation.
...
As such, the to parameter should not be an address in the form of
"Something <someone#example.com>". The mail command may not parse this properly while talking with the MTA.
Secondly, it may just be the case that no mail server will accept outgoing mail from your local machine due to spam protection. I have often seen that the same mail() function will not work locally, but works fine once uploaded to a trustworthy server. You could try to use an authenticated mail relay in that case (SMTP).
Related
The mails are sent with default From address as wasadm#servername which I want to change. I tried using the property mailFrom at application.inf file, changed the values at websphere console - Resources >> Mail >> Mail Sessions >> Return e-mail address but nothing worked out.
Could you please let me know if you have some solution to replace the default from mail address to a custom value.
Normally, the email-sending application code sets a "from" address in the message itself.
That said, I think it might work to set a Mail Session Custom property of mail.from. According to https://javaee.github.io/javamail/docs/api/overview-summary.html:
mail.from The return email address of the current user, used
by the InternetAddress method getLocalAddress.
I know from experience that the envelope sender address can be set with Custom property mail.smtp.from. See https://javaee.github.io/javamail/docs/api/com/sun/mail/smtp/package-summary.html
mail.smtp.from Email address to use for SMTP MAIL command. This sets the envelope
return address. Defaults to msg.getFrom() or
InternetAddress.getLocalAddress(). NOTE: mail.smtp.user was previously
used for this.
I am trying to send an email, using the MATLAB sendmail function. I have been following the instructions of the sendmail function analysis in Mathworks on this link: https://uk.mathworks.com/help/matlab/import_export/sending-email.html
The code which I used on the command window is the following:
setpref ('Internet','E_mail','myemailaddress#gmail.com');
setpref ('Internet','SMTP_Server','smtp.gmail.com') ;
sendmail('emailofreceiver#gmail.com','texttobesent') ;
The message that I am getting after running those commands is the following:
Error using sendmail (line 169)
Could not connect to SMTP host: smtp.gmail.com, port: 25;
Connection timed out: connect
From what I understand I must change the arguments inside the second setpref function that I call, though I am not sure what exactly to include it them, based on the the gmail smtp port that is returned. Any help would be very much appreciated! Thank you in advance!
You may also need to set up something related to SSL. Try to add following besides SMTP_Username and SMTP_Password, and it should work for gmail:
props = java.lang.System.getProperties;
props.setProperty('mail.smtp.auth', 'true');
props.setProperty('mail.smtp.socketFactory.class', 'javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory');
props.setProperty('mail.smtp.socketFactory.fallback', 'false');
props.setProperty('mail.smtp.socketFactory.port', '465');
As #Xiangru Li said on his answer, setting up related to SSL is indeed needed. But that was not enough. Eventually, I had to change my google settings to turn on access for less secure apps. Information about doing this can be found in this link: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255?hl=en
So after doing this, the following code was successful and I managed to send an email with it:
setpref('Internet','SMTP_Server','smtp.gmail.com');
setpref('Internet','E_mail','myemailaddress');
setpref('Internet','SMTP_Username','myusername');
setpref('Internet','SMTP_Password','mypassword');
props = java.lang.System.getProperties;
props.setProperty('mail.smtp.auth','true');
props.setProperty('mail.smtp.socketFactory.class','javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory');
props.setProperty('mail.smtp.socketFactory.port','465');
sendmail('emailofreceiver','testtobesent') ;
I need to send an email via MATLAB and I've read the instructions for sendmail and lots of answers around here. I've tried 3 email providers and I can't really use any of them:
Gmail: I can only send email when I deactivate my anivirus
Hotmail and Yahoo: Error using sendmail (line 171) Exception reading response; Connection reset
Hotmail and Yahoo (antivirus off): Error using sendmail (line 171) Exception reading response; Unrecognized SSL message, plaintext connection?
Here's the code
mail = 'user#service.com';
password = 'passwordgoeshere';
setpref('Internet','SMTP_Server','smtp.server.com');
setpref('Internet','E_mail',mail);
setpref('Internet','SMTP_Username',mail);
setpref('Internet','SMTP_Password',password);
props = java.lang.System.getProperties;
props.setProperty('mail.smtp.auth','true');
props.setProperty('mail.smtp.socketFactory.class', 'javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory');
props.setProperty('mail.smtp.socketFactory.port',port);
sendmail(mail,'Test from MATLAB','Hello! This is a test from MATLAB!')
I've used the following variables:
Gmail: smtp.gmail.com port=465
Hotmail: smtp.live.com port=465 and port=587
Yahoo: smtp.mail.yahoo.com port=587
Since deactivating the antivirus is not a good option, can anyone help me solving this?
Thank you
An alternative way on linux is to run a command line that send the email.
unix('echo "message" | mail -s "subject" example#gmail.com');
A similar method should be available for windows.
For Gmail
Change your settings to allow less secure apps to access your account. Go to the "Less secure apps" section in My Account.
Next to "Access for less secure apps," select Turn on. (Note to Google Apps users: This setting is hidden if your administrator has locked less secure app account access.)
In Matlab:
mail = 'user#otherdomain.com';
password = 'myPassword';
% Set up the preferences
setpref('Internet','E_mail',mail);
setpref('Internet','SMTP_Server','smtp.gmail.com');
setpref('Internet','SMTP_Username',mail);
setpref('Internet','SMTP_Password',password);
% The following is necessary only if you are using GMail as
% your SMTP server.
props = java.lang.System.getProperties;
props.setProperty('mail.smtp.auth','true');
props.setProperty('mail.smtp.socketFactory.class', 'javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory');
props.setProperty('mail.smtp.socketFactory.port','465');
subject = 'Test subject';
message = 'Test message';
sendmail(mail,subject,message)
Simply declare
mail = 'user';
Drop the extension #service.com for the variable mail.
PHP's mail() function sends mail fine, but Swiftmailer's Swift_MailTransport doesn't work!
This works:
mail('user#example.com', 'test '.date('H:i:s'), '');
But this does not:
$transport = Swift_MailTransport::newInstance('');
$mailer = Swift_Mailer::newInstance($transport);
$message = Swift_Message::newInstance('test '.date('H:i:s'))
->setFrom('user#example.com')
->setTo('user#example.com')
->setBody('Testing one two three');
$result = $mailer->send($message);
(The user#example.com is replaced by a valid email address in my test code.)
The mail logs for both events look very similar in both cases, and it appears that mail is being sent in the latter.
Could there be something about the message constructed by Swiftmailer that is causing it to be blocked by a spam filter?
(By the way, I have tried using the SMTP transport, with no luck; I figured that since mail() works correctly, it would be trivial to switch to Swiftmail's Mail transport...)
Which mail server are you using(like your web server or gmail,yahoo..)
this is for gmail SMTP,
$transport = Swift_SmtpTransport::newInstance('smtp.gmail.com', 465, "ssl")
->setUsername($login_id)
->setPassword($password)
;
$mailer = Swift_Mailer::newInstance($transport);
$message = Swift_Message::newInstance('test '.date('H:i:s'))
->setFrom('user#example.com')
->setTo('user#example.com')
->setBody('Testing one two three');
$result = $mailer->send($message);
if mail() function works, then SwiftMailer should also work.
Hope it worked for you, and helped you.
I have a simple email sender for user account activation. Depending on which email address I use, I get significantly different response times: University email - 1 minute, Gmail - 3-4 hours, Yahoo - 1 or 2 days -- which seems bizarre. Has anyone else seen this phenomenon?
EDIT:
There weren't many responses (even for a bounty), but I'll try to explain my problem more clearly.
This probably isn't greylsting -- If I so a simple:
php mail ($to, $subject, $body) // this delivers instantly.
My cakephp code:
function __sendActivationEmail($id) {
$User = $this->User->read ( null, $id );
$this->set ( 'suffix_url', $User ['User'] ['id'] . '/' . $this->User->getActivationHash () );
$this->set ( 'username', $User ['User'] ['username'] );
$this->Email->to = $User ['User'] ['email'];
$this->Email->subject = 'Test.com - ' . __ ( 'please confirm your email address', true );
$this->Email->from = 'noreply#test.com';
$this->Email->template = 'user_confirm';
$this->Email->sendAs = 'text';
$this->Email->delivery = 'mail';
$this->Email->send ();
}
Causes delays from 13 minutes (ok; we'll deal with it) to 5-6 hours (less okay, since this is an activation email). For some of my users, it works instantly, but for other users (of the same service provider, i.e., gmail, it sees these delays).
Any clues?
The code looks fine, but it of course doesn't tell anything about the mail server's configuration.
3-4 hours I would put down to Greylisting, but 1-2 days is definitely too much. Is this reproducible? How many addresses have you tried this with?
What do the full headers of the (received) mails look like? The "received from: .... "path should tell you at which point it took 1-2 days to deliver.
Maybe you can install PHPMailer as a Vendor and create a Component called "Mail"...
And don't forget to authenticate with your SMTP server! :)
Ignore the whole PHP element of it for a moment.
If its a linux server for example, send a mail from the command line e.g. mail myemail#me.com
see if the same thing is happening that way. Its quite likely its a server configuration issue not a php or cakePHP issue.
Look up a few basics like having a FQDN and maybe look into setting up SPF records for your email. Make sure the emails are coming from your domain name not someone elses e.g. not the users email.
Also check if you have email spam software set up that could be grey listing you email on the way out (unlikely but possible). the mostly like thing is the destination spam filter is delaying it. Try send to a gmail account and see if it gets through fine or goes into spam.
Do all this without touching PHP, if all is going fine there then set up a basic php script to do a basic email not using CakePHP, if that works fine then you know its CakePHP etc but I doubt it.
So after further digging, I realized that it was our server host's problem. We use Slicehost, and it just so happens that a range of ips that had been blacklisted included our own ip. We got our name off the list, and we're good to go.